1863-12 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

1863/12 — Unfortunately for us now, early issues of “The Atlantic” did not employ bylines on its stories and articles, thus most items from the contents listed below are anonymous. When there is an article with a known author I will credit it below. Note: The following titles could be articles, stories or even short poems in some cases.

Contents as follows:

The Man without a Country by Edward E. Hale

The Birds of Killingworth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 5-1/2 page long poem

Literary Life in Paris

The Great Air-Engine by The author of ‘Margret Howth’

A Loyal Woman’s No

Eugene Delacriox by W. J. Stillman

Sympathetic Lying

Something about Bridges by H. T. Tuckerman

Internal Structure and Progression of the Glacier by Louis Agassiz

In an Attic by Mrs. Paul Akers

Longfellow by George W. Curtis – 7 page article

Letter to a Peace Democrat by Francis Wayland Jr.

Reviews and Literary Notices:

Kirk’s History of Charles the Bold

Fuller’s Good Thoughts in Bad Times

Wendell Phillips’s Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Cullum’s Systems of Military Bridges

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